HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1994-06-24 Mayor Joseph A, Fernekes
Council:
Jack Drago
John R. Penna
---'Roberta Cerri Teglia
Robert Yee
MINUTES
City Council
Municipal Services Building
Community Room
June 24, 1994
378
SPECIAL MEETING
CITY COUNCIL
OF THE
CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
JUNE 24, 1994
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 54956 of the Government Code of the State of California, that
the City Council of the City of South San Francisco will hold a Special Meeting on Friday, the 24th day of June 1994, at
8:30 a.m., in the Municipal Services Building Community Room, 33 Arroyo Drive, South San Francisco, California.
Purpose of the meeting:
Discussion of the Budget.
City Clerk
City of South San Francisco
Dated: June 22, 1994
AGENDA
ACTION TAKEN
CALL TO ORDER: (Cassette No. 1)
8:48 a.m. Mayor Fernekes presiding.
ROLL CALL:
Council Present: Drago, Yee and Fernekes.
Council Absent: Penna and Teglia.
Discussion of the Budget.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated he passed out a
slight revision to the budget presentation to accom-
modate some schedules of staff. He suggested
having another meeting on the 29th, in the afternoon
or morning, in the event the budget was not finished
today. He stated that a League bulletin came in
yesterday afternoon, where the Assembly wants to
shift $100,000,000 in vehicle license tax from cities
to counties. The Committee is going to act on it
this afternoon and we were urged to contact our
Legislators.
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AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
Economic & Community Development Budget:
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379
He stated the budget does not anticipate a loss of
revenue by the State. However, we have to plan on
it and anticipate it, because we have no information
on how it will affect us.
Finance Director Margolis stated the negative effect
would be $250,000, but it is not clear in the way
they state it, because it is divided into several pots.
Vice Mayor Yee stated, if the City is going to lose
$250,000, maybe we should prepare a contingency
plan to deal with the $250,000.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated Daly City alerted
us that the Board of Supervisors is looking to in-
crease booking fees by 40 % and he felt the Council
should tell the Board that is a substantial increase.
He stated there were revised numbers in the Fire
Department's reorganization to reflect savings over
the multi-year program and a report on positions in
the last seven years, which was requested by Coun-
cilman Drago.
He related the following on the Department of Eco-
nomic & Community Development: assessment of
the primary needs, the work force to do it and how
best to organize the functions should be ready in a
week or two for recommendation to Council; this
would encompass Planning, Building, Code Enforce-
ment, Economic & Community Development, Rede-
velopment and CDBG; looking at the status quo and,
in July, deal with the revised organizational staffing
proposal; a second critical area is the entitlement
and permit process area and he would forward the
detailed report from the Interim Director, after he
finished reading it; etc.
Interim Director of Economic & Community Devel-
opment Beyers related: the Department of Econom-
ic & Community Development reflects a de-
crease of 4% or $92,000 over this fiscal year;
$21,000 is the reduction of the Associate Planner
position; 11% reduction of $16,000 in savings of
salaries, reflected by the vacancy of the Director and
the Coordinator position; there is a status quo, until
we come back with a recommendation dealing with
the redevelopment and housing; the Planning
Division reflects a reduction of one position, Asso-
ciate Planner, which requires a revision in the work
program and reassignment of workload; he will
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380
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
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come back later to the Council with a recommenda-
tion on project priorities; planning will be doing an
update of the housing element of the General Plan;
2 % reduction in the Building Division, due to the
vacancy of a Senior Building Inspector - which will
be filled; the number of inspections handled by the
Division; etc.
Mr. Carl Cahill stated he works as an Assistant
Planner and, even though considered as a temporary
employee, he had given dedicated service for more
than one year. He stated the position was funded by
the vacant senior planner position and the budget, as
currently proposed, will put him out of a job. He
stated the position works with the general public at
the counter and telephone communicating the City's
land use policies, zoning ordinances and on land use
compliance. He stated there were 500 building
permits for zoning and land use compliance and 150
discretionary permits from the Design Review
Board, as well as vacant industrial properties that
will be occupied by businesses when approved. He
stated that, as a suggestion, eliminate the Associate
Planner and create another Assistant Planner po-
sition, which would save the City money and reduce
the impacts on service; etc.
Mr. Steve Padovan, Assistant Planner, spoke in
favor of retaining the Associate Planner position.
He stated the Economic & Community Development
Department right now has 22 employees budgeted,
four positions are currently vacant and two positions
are held by interim people. It had been projected
that we would go beyond our budget by $100,000-
200,000. However, if you look at the revenue
brought in and then you subtract the $600,000
in planning fees, $600,000 from CDBG, which
funds 3 or 4 positions, and $150,000-200,000 cost
of East of 101, which should be reimbursed,
the 22 positions only cost the City about $900,000.
So, it's quite a bit to take another $60,000-70,000
out of the Planning Division. He stated that the
cuts amounted to a 25% cut in the front line staff,
after already losing a half time clerical - which made
everyone answer phones, do mailings and tend
the counter. He stated the Division had cut all funds
for equipment, were using old chairs and computers
and had no money for dues and meetings. He
spoke of the volume of projects they have to review,
work in helping accommodate business looking for
places that have been vacant in which to relocate
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
Public Works Budget:
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Page 4
and have received positive responses. He felt busi-
ness was picking up strongly, two to three applica-
tions are going through the office daily and, without
these positions, it will be difficult to maintain servic-
es to the public - with the Kaiser and Sunset pro-
jects, let alone the transportation issue with BART
to review.
He proposed that the Economic Development Coor-
dinator be funded by the Redevelopment Agency,
because most of the work involved housing and
redevelopment and that is not in the City's budget -
it is in the Agency's. He stated that he has also
been doing work on the redevelopment housing and
could be part of that budget.
Mayor Fernekes questioned how we pick up the
amount of work presently being done when a posi-
tion is eliminated.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated some of it will not
get done or be done on a much longer time line,
other than emergencies coming in the front door.
Councilman Drago suggested going through the
entire budget, starting with the City Manager, hold-
ing all questions and quit at noon - so we can get
through the original proposal.
Councilman Yee felt, if there were any comments
regarding the budget from employees, not the pub-
lic, they should submit a written report, because he
hated to see 360 people come before Council to
defend their jobs.
City Manager Wohlenberg presented his organiza-
tional changes in Public Works, which would create
two departments: the proposal was for a Director of
Public Works/City Engineer, a secretary, engineer-
ing plan checking, inspection of public and pri-
vate construction of public facilities, maintenance of
streets, signs, signals, street lights and vehicular
equipment, management of Aircraft Noise Abate-
ment Program and Solid Waste Program; establish
Water Quality Department with a Director responsi-
ble for plant operation, upgrading, expansion and
coordination with co-users, collection system opera-
tion, maintenance and capital investment and
Stormwater Management Program - to include main-
tenance of drainage structures and systems; look-
ing at the Aircraft Noise Abatement as a separate
AGENDA A~!!QN TAKEN
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
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program.
Vice Mayor Yee stated, if you split the maintenance
function, one portion of it in the WQCP and the
other portion remaining in the street department,
there would be a problem with that during storms or
other emergencies. He stated that the problem was
in balancing the budget and finding good solutions,
yet everyone is talking about priorities and not about
efficiency and doing a better job with less resources.
Councilman Drago agreed that the Council should
be dealing with more efficiency and cutting costs.
Director of Public Works Parini explained the dif-
ferent components of his budget: administration was
himself and his secretary for $161,000; Solid Waste
Management Program - administration is $136,000,
drainage maintenance of the creeks is $247,000 and
inspection is $70,000, with two Inspector vacancies,
which are top priorities to fill; a report will be forth-
coming on how they plan to monitor the waste for
the Stormwater Management Program; Engineering;
Aircraft Noise and general activity; etc.
Discussion followed: Vice Mayor Yee stated he
would like to see a chart showing, for example, the
position of Public Works Director 2 for Stormwater
and 1 for Engineering and show the total allocation
of time to 100%; his concern was because the
equipment operator shows 10% for Stormwater
Management, without mention of how the other 90%
is spent; Finance Director Margolis stated they
would do that for the entire department; Councilman
Drago questioned the large turnover in that depart-
ment - is it salary, benefits, conditions or what;
there were more promotional opportunities in
other, larger sewer enterprises; the City just recently
created a Senior Source Control Inspector - until
now we did not even have that position, and people
come to the Plant at the journeyman level; Inspector
classification was the same for the Stormwater Man-
agement Program and the WQCP; the Enterprise
Fund is the same as the prior year; in July there
would be a proposal to increase sewer service charg-
es by 10% to support the enterprise function;
Council needed to give concurrence on the two new
Directors before the recruitment process could be-
gin, because the Director of Public Works was
leaving on 9/1/94; Councilman Drago wanted to
broaden the scope of positions, so there would be
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Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
City Attorney Budget:
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Page 6
less need for specialists at the Plant; he had also
considered contracting out the whole operation to
private enterprise; he supported having a Director,
who is a real specialist, at the WQCP and begin
recruitment immediately; Mayor Fernekes concurred
with Councilman Drago's recommendation and to
also recruit for the Director Public Works/City
Engineer; Vice Mayor Yee agreed but felt they
should hold off on the reorganization until the new
Directors are hired and are comfortable with that
plan.
M/S Drago/Yee - To reclassify the Director of
Public Works to a Director of Public Works/City
Engineer and create a new position in charge of the
WQCP as Director of WQCP.
Carried by unanimous voice vote.
Discussion followed: Vice Mayor Yee felt it would
be more clear if the Aircraft Noise Program was
separated from the Engineering budget; Public
Works Director Parini stated there was one reclassi-
fication issue in the Engineering Div. - for the engi-
neering draftsperson to be reclassified to an engi-
neering technician, with a 2 1/2% salary increase;
Vice Mayor Yee stated he would not support any
reclassification changes this year; the manpower was
one of the differences in the two budget documents -
one showing a one person reduction and the other no
reduction; the new version was correct; etc.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated he had asked for
an alternate proposal from the Nave law firm for
contractual services but this was also an organiza-
tional change and perhaps the Council was not ready
to decide or may wish to continue the current ar-
rangement for a while.
Interim City Attorney Nave related: the budget they
prepared was identical to the one that existed for the
1993-94 fiscal year, with approximately a $10,000
difference in the proposed 1994-95 budget, which
was the result of some reduction in supplies; he had
given Council a handout which shows the difference
in projected savings between in-house and private
attorneys; in-house is $338,407, with no reduction
in staff; the private is $269,006; the savings is
$69,401, with perhaps a further reduction through
a reduction of office space required; the private
proposal is premised on 160 hours a month in basic
A~ENDA A~TION TAKEN
,,, Discussion of Budget - Continued.
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Page 7
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services and there were sheets showing billings
from April through this date's activity, which in-
cludes work on East of 101 - which has been the
most time consuming; East of 101 work will cease
after the General Plan is completed; he and Interim
City Attorney Mattas plan to average 125 hours a
month; plan to bill 160 hours per month; his firm
represented twelve cities in the bay area and do
special assignments for any number in land use,
redevelopment and litigation; in addition to he
and Steve, the City would have the resources of
eleven attorneys in his office, with various special-
ties; some adjustment has to be made by staff and
that is getting used to not having a City Attorney
here for 40 hours a week; they have had success in
their scheduling of time to answer requests for legal
services by staff; one of them would be here three
times a week; this has worked well in San Leandro,
which is an industrial city, is larger than S.S.F. by
10,000 people and has the same industrial and reve-
nue base; etc.
Discussion followed: whether the proposal included
the Assistant City Attorney and the current Clerical
Secretary II position; it does not include the Assis-
tant Attorney, does include the Legal Secretary II
and deletes the half time Legal Secretary I; the
monthly fee is $16,000 per month for 125 hours in
round numbers; Vice Mayor Yee stated that 125
hours equated to $13,000 a month, multiplied by 12
equals $150,000, so where does the other $100,000
come from; the Legal Secretary II position plus 160
hours a month for contract City Attorney services,
excluding litigation; 160 hours at $100 X 12 =
$196,000 plus Legal Secretary II; current contract
calls for 100 hours a month, with the services of the
Assistant City Attorney; Interim City Attorney Nave
felt they could do the Assistant's work in the addi-
tional 60 hours a month; Vice Mayor Yee had diffi-
culty reconciling the Attorney's numbers - if you
don't have East of 101, the firm would spend 100
hours and they could still keep the Assistant City
Attorney; Interim City Attorney Nave stated the
only litigation they would do within the proposal
was code enforcement, misdemeanor prosecutions
and routine matters; insurance claims were handled
by ABAG; Interim City Attorney Mattas stated the
figure includes litigation that the city would be
involved in~ the attorneys would be picking up the
Assistant City Attorney's workload; Vice Mayor
Yee had difficulty in reconciling the attorney's
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
.__Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
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Page 8
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numbers, because they could keep the Assistant
City Attorney and, when East of 101 was complet-
ed, the budget would only be $252,000 - with the
two attorneys 100 hours a month; that figure repre-
sents the two attorneys 160 hours a month, plus
the secretary; the hours over 100 are the hours to
cover the work the Assistant Attorney performs; the
litigation the Nave firm would do is from code
enforcement, misdemeanors and extraordinary litiga-
tion - other types of litigation would be farmed out,
such as Oyster Point on eminent domain; they can't
rent out the City Attorney's space, so it was not a
savings, because it would still require a janitor; the
attorneys could cut $15,000 from the budget in law
books, Codes and publications, because they have
them back in their office; Councilman Drago sup-
ported having outside attorneys, due to the greater
resources offered for litigation; no absences for
vacations and sickness; in the last 10 years there had
been 4 City Attorneys, plus their recruitment costs -
you train them and they leave; Mayor Fernekes
stated he leaned towards outside attorneys and ques-
tioned if this contract also included service to the
Redevelopment Agency; the Finance Director allo-
cates department time to the Redevelopment Agency
and the Enterprise Fund and transfers the money to
the General Fund; etc.
Assistant City Attorney Chiozza responded to the
presentation: the in-house budget of $338,000
included the 1/2 time Legal Secretary I, which has
not been used since the beginning of this year, yet
the $44,000 was in the budget.
Councilman Drago directed the Finance Director to
confirm the figures - that the $44,000 is not includ-
ed in the $338,000.
Assistant City Attorney Chiozza continued: mater-
ials and supplies of $54,000, yet the expenditure
figure for May of 1994 shows $50,000 budgeted,
yet encumbered or spent is $22,000, which repre-
sents 11 months of FY 1993-94. So, the $54,000 is
an inflated figure; books and supplies have been
budgeted for $15,000 for FY 1993-94 and, 11
months into the year, they spent $9,000 - and much
of that is updates to Codes.
He stated that the City had to be looked at individu-
ally. This firm is a municipal law boutique and
does represent the City of San Leandro, which may
AGENDA
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
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ACTION TAKEN
be relative in size. However, he did not know the
diversity and complexity, but would opine that it
may be a rather unique situation for them in terms
of the size, because Steve Meyers was the appointed
City Attorney for a number of years in San Leandro
and was able to convince the Council that it would
be a good thing for him to join the firm of Mike
Nave, a very fine firm. So, he felt there was a very
distinct correlation between Meyers' association for
many years as appointed City Attorney to join Mike
Nave's firm and still retain the relationship in San
Leandro.
He related: the firm is at 121-130 hours now in
terms of their service to the City at $125.00 an
hour, which he felt was a great deal of down time,
because any savings would be absorbed in litigation
costs. The $269,006 is merely a retainer and does
not consider cost of litigation with the City being
sued.
Interim City Attorney Nave stated the City was
paying $205.00 an hour for outside attorneys for the
Oyster Point lawsuit and they were going to do
future cases for $150.00 an hour. The $269,000
was not a retainer - it was on an hourly basis for
160 hours per month.
Assistant City Attorney Chiozza believed the Coun-
cil is dedicated to doing what they believed to be in
the best interests of the City. He stated that the City
Attorney's Office was appointed as lead counsel for
the Oyster Point Project in 1991 and the office has
litigated nine private property acquisitions, as well
as pursuing eight funding agreements, five of which
were handled in-house. If you use the hourly rate
he was paid by the City of $35.00 for 905 hours
compared to $150.00 an hour, computed out there is
an enormous difference. He stated he had handled
the Fair Labor Standards case in Federal Court and
worked up 140 hours on that case, as well as the
Westborough case. Again there was a substantial
savings to the City, because the award paid down
the assessments.
He stated there are an enormous amount of requests
from City staff for services, which he turned around
in a timely fashion, but these detracted from his
ability to handle litigation in-house.
He wanted to impress on Council that there is a
~ENDA ACTION TAKEN
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
Parks & Recreation Budget:
Library Budget:
Finance Budget:
~ rersonnel Budget:
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387
great need for services and requests for legal ser-
vices in the City and he knew the Council would
make the decision objectively, in the best interests
of the City and in all fairness.
Councilman Drago suggested checking with each of
the Department Heads to see their level of satisfac-
tion, pro or con, with the Nave firm these past few
months. He stated he wanted an honest, objective
report given to the City Manager by each Depart-
ment Head.
Director of Parks, Recreation & Community
Services Nagel related: the budget was status quo,
with a slight increase in materials and services and
no reductions; there was one reclassification of the
Superintendent of Recreation & Community Servic-
es; recreation meets its mandate of $2.5 million of
expenditures and is covered 51% by revenue;
$13,000 expenditure for an agreement with the
School District to cover the costs of utilizing the
pool during the summer months, which is under
negotiation; fee waivers are an 80-20% split, which
the Council wanted to review; etc.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated that Parks & Rec-
reation and the Library were severely cut last year
and, as a result, were not being cut this year.
City Librarian Dancy stated her budget was also
status quo, other than a reclassification of the Tech-
nical Services position, as recommended by the City
reclassification study. She continued: turning one
full time position into two half time positions to
allow flexibility in their schedules; a four year ac-
quisition of the Dymax Automation System; taking
$44,000 from the Xerox replacement fund and putt-
ing it into the General Fund, to offset the costs for
next year; etc.
Director of Finance Margolis related: eliminating
the paramedic billing and contracting it out, other-
wise it was a status quo budget; shifting of costs and
closing down the computer acquisition as a project;
making better uses of resources with the new com-
puter with direct timecard entry; time saved is being
put into revenue collection enhancements on busi-
ness licenses; etc.
Director of Personnel Gonzales related: no pro-
posed changes in staff; reclassification study will
~ENDA
.Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
Non-Departmental Budget:
City Manager Budget:
City Council Budget:
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388
come back to Council; $6,000 for customer training,
otherwise status quo.
Councilman Drago stated he would not vote on any
reclassification.
Vice Mayor Yee stated that the problem is the bud-
get shortfall, laying off people and a new shortfall of
$250,000 when trying to balance the budget. He
stated there would be no upgrades and no increases.
He stated these reclassification and increases were
being offered piecemeal, when there was a compac-
tion problem, and people get mad, because a lower
classification makes more than they do.
Consensus of Council - To not accept any salary
upgrades.
Discussion followed: organizational dues;
maintenance cost for implementation of 414H
section; $60,000 for a study; $100,000 Animal Con-
trol Contract with County; County Mediation Sup-
port; Convention & Visitors Convention Bureau;
Congestion Management; C/CAG dues; Criminal
Justice; Airport Land Use; SAMCEDA; Summer
Youth Program is a County program; community
organizations, such as Sister City; Calif./Arizona/
Nevada Innovative Group is $3,5000 a year; sup-
porting the County's Family Housing Trust; etc.
Consensus of Council - will not support Ca-
lif./Arizona/Nevada Innovation Group and County's
Family Housing Trust.
City Manager Wohlenberg stated it was status quo,
other than not having the Assistant to the City Man-
ager position.
Discussion followed: Finance is charging more
exact Council benefits, in that $17% did not reflect
true costs; Councilman Drago sees no reference to
his memo for a parttime intern position for City
Council to relieve staff of follow-ups, to coordinate
their calendar for meetings, do research and minor
studies - for maybe 20 hours a week; he will look
into it and report back in a week; Mayor Fernekes
agreed; Vice Mayor Yee felt the details should be
looked into first and use the clerical study, because
it is going to take away certain duties from the City
Manager's Secretary; the Finance Director spent
many hours as an intern during college and, at that
~fiENDA
Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
Councilman Penna Arrived at the Meeting:
City Clerk Budget:
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time, it was done for school credit, however, that is
no longer the case; etc.
Councilman Penna arrived at the meeting at 11:37
p.m.
City Clerk Battaya related: her change was in staff
positions, because for years she could not make staff
understand that the main position was a Deputy City
Clerk, equivalent to a Secretary II; recently she had
prepared all of the documents, brought them to the
Assistant City Manager and then the budget was
changed by Pat Martel to properly reflect the posi-
tion as a Secretary II, fulltime and a Senior Typist
Clerk, 1/4 time - which had been a 1/2 time position
last year; the advertising had gone up because of the
reassessment hearings for Common Green Districts;
the difference in salary for the Secretary II was $200
a month.
Assistant City Manager Martel related: this was an
issue that had been raised many times in the past;
she had told the City Clerk that, if she could pro-
duce some documentation to verify the $200 differ-
ence, she would change it; a resolution was pro-
duced that established the $200 pay raise for Deputy
City Clerk, which was at the same level as Secretary
Il; she had then changed the budget and related it to
the City Manager.
City Clerk Battaya stated that, by Government
Code, she alone could appoint a Deputy City Clerk
and only in her absence can the Mayor appoint one
of the Council as Deputy City Clerk to function in
her absence. She related, years ago there was a
Personnel Director who created job specs for a
Deputy City Clerk, then there was a problem.
Councilman Drago would remember. There was a
lawsuit, where the Council finally agreed and ac-
cepted the fact that she alone can appoint a Deputy.
So, this is where this arrangement had been estab-
lished - to pay the Deputy City Clerk as a Secretary
II.
Councilman Drago remembered that it went back to
when he first got on Council. There was a problem
going on and he volunteered, with Councilman
Addiego, to go in and look at that Department,
which they did. He stated that the Council, at
that time, had agreed to give autonomy to the City
Clerk's Office, in the sense that Council would
AGENDA
.,Discussion of the Budget - Continued.
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decide the salary and the number of people she was
given - besides herself, a Secretary and half a Clerk.
What it said was she could decide what the salary
was and there was a cap on her budget for those
positions, recognizing that now she was going to
contract out the work.
City Clerk Battaya stated she had personal contracts
with each woman in her office. She stated that in
1985 there were problems with the Deputy City
Clerk and she had removed the title and the addi-
tional $200 a month. The City's outside attorneys
told the Council that the City Clerk could not do
that and I spent $2,700 on a lawsuit and proved that
I could.
Councilman Drago had problems using titles, be-
cause, after the clerical survey is done, those posi-
tions may not exist.
City Clerk Battaya stated that in 1985 a resolution
had been passed taking both positions out of her
office and she was allowed to use the salary and
benefits of those positions to pay for the contract
labor. She stated that she needed to tie the two titles
to civil service, because that is the way the budget
and payroll are set up.
Vice Mayor Yee related: the Council authorized a
certain number for the City Clerk's Department and
she can hire and fire those people in her Depart-
ment; theoretically she can give them twice as much
as a Secretary I, as long as she can make her De-
partment work.
City Clerk Battaya stated, if she arbitrarily presented
a budget that did not tie to civil service positions,
she would have the same problems with staff.
Councilman Yee stated the Council was giving the
Clerk a certain amount of money that she could
spend whatever way she liked, as long as she stayed
within the budget.
Councilman Drago stated this would be the
equivalency for now.
Vice Mayor Yee stated he would not be around for a
meeting next week but, if there was a meeting and
conferences were discussed, he was uncomfortable
~ENDA
ACTION TAKEN
Discussion of Budget - Continued.
ADJOURNMENT:
with the Indiana Conference.
City Librarian Dancy stated the Library received
Federal grant funds to promote the package of
tutoring materials for Project Read. She stated part
of the funding was for the conference in Indiana for
Project Read and could only be used for that.
Vice Mayor Yee stated he did not have a problem
with that - only if it came out of the General Fund.
Councilman Drago stated the General Fund was
funding that program and did not see why they
could not use the money for other things.
City Librarian Dancy stated when they make appli-
cations for Federal grants they must indicate how
the funds will be spent and Leslie Sheldon, the
Program Coordinator, is the person who will attend
the conference.
Vice Mayor Yee stated the Council had gone
through most of the departments and wanted a sum-
mary of each department to refresh memories before
the next budget session, to see if there is a consen-
sus on items - such as the Fire Department, on the
reorganization and the quint.
M/S Drago/Penna - To adjourn the meeting to
Wednesday, 7/6/94, 7:00 p.m., Municipal Services
Building, Community Room, 33 Arroyo Drive.
Carried by unanimous voice vote.
Time of adjournment was 11:55 p.m.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
City of South San Francisco
APPROVED.
Citvtof South San Francisco
entries of this Council meeting show the action taken by the City Council to dispose of an item. Oral communica-
~ns, arguments and comments are recorded on tape. The tape and documents related to the items are on file in the
~fice of the City Clerk and are available for inspection, review and copying.
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